[Renfield]

Oopsie!

[1rudeboy]

If you’re going to mess up, might as well mess up big.

[razorback-bert]

Somebody turn off the GPS?

[bgill]

It's not been announced how it hit the shoal, which is marked on charts. The Port Royal draws 33 feet of water, and the shoal is 22 feet under water. The captain of the Port Royal was relieved, which is normal for a grounding such as this.

WHAT?!?!?

[Islander7]

USS Port Royal

[Travis T. OJustice]

See ya, skipper! Wow! This sucks!

[Professor_Leonide]

The skipper can say goodbye to his promotion!

[CindyDawg]

Cruise prices will probably go up, to pay for the repairs.

[dblshot]

A [port] Royal Screw Up.

[hiredhand]

Major Maritime Oopsie Ping!

[Camel Joe]

Wait till Barney Frank hears about this! He'll be catching the first Gub’ment plane to the Islands. Imagine all those sailors he can chase after while She's in dry dock. If only the One would go through with dumping that silly “don't ask don't tell” routine.

[thinkthenpost]

Calling all VLS guys, any theories how the hatches on top of the launcher could be twisted? I think it will be interesting to see how badly damaged the Port Royal is, but I think either a more credible report, or at least a better written one will be needed.

[unkus]

This is too bad. Zero is going to gut the military enough as it is.

[meandog]

“Shave his b*lls with a rusty razor, shave his b*lls with a rusty razor, earli in the morning...” (the skipper justifiably needed to be fired but it was probably some young j.g. on watch at the time of the grounding)

[pabianice]

Let me suggest that the crap dumped into the harbor was not on the navigation charts. The people who dumped it into the bay should pay for the ship’s repair.

[river rat]

So much went wrong here - it’s hard to know where to begin.

Annapolis appears to be turning out far too many losers...and crew training can’t be up to snuff.

There have been far too many instances of our ships being damaged by “accident” or failure to provide adequate “force protection”

One would think that our modern and very electronically sophisticated warships should be capable of avoiding KNOWN hazards in close proximity to their own port area of Hawaii!!!!

How much is known about this Captain?

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

“The ship may be there for months, and the total cost for repairs may be over $50 million”

Fix it. There is nothing on the face of the earth that can be had for $50m equal to this. I want it in our fleet.

[shotdog]

A grounding like this can ruin your whole day.

[chrisser]

Does a ship run a full crew during sea trials or is just a subset required?

[river rat]

A little more information.

USS Port Royal Runs Aground In Hawaii… Captain Is Toast.

One of the biggest, most expensive and most technologically advanced warships based at Pearl Harbor ran aground in 17 to 22 feet of water half a mile off Honolulu International Airport’s reef runway.

Navy tugs tried early yesterday morning to nudge the 9,600-ton, 567-foot-long guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal off the sandy and rocky bottom, but were unsuccessful, officials said.

Captain John Carroll was replaced as commander of the USS Port Royal pending an investigation into how the ship ran aground about a half-mile (0.8 kilometers) south of Honolulu Airport last Thursday, authorities said.

The state-of-the-art 9,600-ton guided missile cruiser was freed from shoal waters south of Oahu early Monday after it spent three days stuck on a rocky and sandy seabed in 22 feet (6.7 meters) of water.

The cruiser was hauled to Pearl Harbor where it will enter dry dock repairs. Navy officials did not have a cost estimate for the salvage operation.

[WayneS]

That ship draws 33 feet of water?